Tom's Hardware Taiwan has scored some pictures as well as what appears to be just about all the specifications of AMD's upcoming Radeon HD 4800-series cards. The card names will indeed be Radeon HD 4870 and Radeon HD 4850 just as suspected.

The only thing that seems to be missing from the specifications posted are clock speeds, so we have to hold on a little bit longer until we'll know the final clock speeds of these new cards. However, Tom's has managed to score a lot of juicy information about new features and system requirements.

New features which we could see at a glance includes UVD 2, on-chip HDCP, TeraScale graphics engine and what AMD calls Power to Spare. The last feature is more of a statement, but interestingly AMD says that the new Radeon HD 4800-series, "has the brute processing power needed for physics, artificial intelligence, stream computing and ray tracing calculations," which sounds just like what Nvidia has been talking about recently.

Key features pointed out unclude 24x CFAA (custom filter anti-aliasing), dynamic geometry acceleration and game physics processing capability, to mention a few new ones. The system requirements list a x16 PCIe slot, a 500W+ power supply or a 600W+ power supply for CrossFireX and 1GB of system memory and the usual bits and bobs.

Interestingly enough, AMD has gone for a pair of six-pin power connectors on the Radeon HD 4870, in favour of a six- and eight-pin solution seen on cards like the Radeon HD 3870 X2. The Radeon HD 4850 still only uses a single six-pin power connector.

The Radeon HD 4870 is meant to have a SRP of US$329 (€208) with the Radeon HD 4850 coming in at a mere US$229 (€145) which looks amazingly cheap in contrast to the rumoured retail prices of Nvidia's next gen cards.

You can find the specs and pictures of the cards here